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Member of Parliament (MP) for Buem Constituency in the Volta Region, Mr Daniel Ashiamah, has alleged that New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters are being pushed into national security, a move he described as dangerous for the country.

Speaking on Agoo TV’s ‘Yensempa’ show hosted by Bonohene Baffour Awuah, Mr Ashiamah said the national security outfit is now divided into two because there are party national security officials operating in the service and there are the original national security officials who passed through the requisite procedures to be appointed into the service.

“We have to plead with the government to provide identification for national security officials. Some of them do not have any identity card because they are party national security officials. We have the original national security officers but the political party ones have been mixed up with them,” he said.

He explained that the influence of parties in the agency is not healthy for the country. According to him, some officials of the service cannot mention the names of their supervising officials when they are going to make arrests.

“Most of them cannot mention the names of their superiors. All they say when you question them is, ‘my boss sent me’,” he added.

Mr Ashiamah said national security officials should not be made to make arrests like that of Appiah Stadium because it is the duty of the Ghana Police Service to make arrests of such nature.

According to the Buem MP, he was surprised that Appiah Stadium was arrested with handcuffs when all the national security could have done was invite him over to explain issues.

He said the comments made by the National Democratic Congress serial caller did not deserve an arrest of that sort because there had been several instances where sympathisers of the NPP insulted former President John Mahama, but there were no arrests.

The outspoken legislator called on the government to come up with new forms of identification for national security officials aside their normal identification cards.

According to him, the growing number of people who claim to be national security personnel is alarming and if nothing is done to salvage the situation, someone may commit a crime of killing or injuring another person all in the name of being a national security official.